Comments on: Honor the Event http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2007/11/05/honor-the-event/ Growing your business through the power of relationships Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andy Lopata http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2007/11/05/honor-the-event/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Andy Lopata Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:33:35 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2007/11/05/honor-the-event/#comment-157 I was recently training a group of bank manager on generating new business through networking. A bigg focus for many of them was community groups. One of the attendees had been invited by the leader of a local church to come along on a Sunday morning to meet members of the congregation. Enthusiastic about the prospects that this invitation offered, he was all ready to go along, fully stocked up on business cards and with his patter at the ready. Your philosophy of 'honour the event' was so appropriate in this instance. I asked him what impression he thought he would make by invading this local congregation on a religious occasion and 'hunting' for business. Wouldn't it be better to join the congregation out of natural interest with respect for everyone there and their reason for being there? Couldn't he achieve more by becoming part of the same congregation and building relationships and, vitally, trust over a period of time? Fortunately he agreed with me and chose to still take up the invitation, but to leave his business cards at home. I was recently training a group of bank manager on generating new business through networking. A bigg focus for many of them was community groups.

One of the attendees had been invited by the leader of a local church to come along on a Sunday morning to meet members of the congregation. Enthusiastic about the prospects that this invitation offered, he was all ready to go along, fully stocked up on business cards and with his patter at the ready.

Your philosophy of ‘honour the event’ was so appropriate in this instance. I asked him what impression he thought he would make by invading this local congregation on a religious occasion and ‘hunting’ for business.

Wouldn’t it be better to join the congregation out of natural interest with respect for everyone there and their reason for being there? Couldn’t he achieve more by becoming part of the same congregation and building relationships and, vitally, trust over a period of time?

Fortunately he agreed with me and chose to still take up the invitation, but to leave his business cards at home.

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